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Someone can tell me if S3TC for r600 is implemented in a MESA GIT who is not the master branch? I initially wanted to implement it by myself by checking how it's made in the r300 drivers but I don't think I will be able to do it.

the patent is not the problem AMD pays for the patend for every card they sold so every amd card user have the right to use it because they pay for the patent.

the problem is mesa7.9 is still unter dev and the openGL version in tarket is openGL2.1 and S3TC is not in the OpenGL2.1 spec and they do not have the dev resources to do anything than main kronos-spec work.

the patent is not the problem AMD pays for the patend for every card they sold so every amd card user have the right to use it because they pay for the patent.

the problem is mesa7.9 is still unter dev and the openGL version in tarket is openGL2.1 and S3TC is not in the OpenGL2.1 spec and they do not have the dev resources to do anything than main kronos-spec work.

next target on mesa 8.0 is opengGL3 and S3TC is in the OpenGL3-spec.

Uhm, not that I'm a lawyer or anything, but no, that's not how it works...

Gallium can load an external s3tc library on demand if it's available. The major legal issues are hopefully on user's end. r600g will assumably sooner or later have a similar stance to s3tc as r300g. Of these I'm fairly sure. I'd give it a whack myself if I a bit less vague idea of how it works.